Adjustable bracket for supporting shelves or the like.



R. OWEN. ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING SHELVES OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1912. 1 089 863 Patented Mar. 10, 1914 RICHARD OWEN, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

ADJUSTABLE BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING SHELVES OR THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15, 1912.

1,089,863. Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

Serial NO. 703,926.

To all whom itmay concern. in Fig. 2. The bracket is then allowed to Be it known that I, Brennan OwnN, subswing downward until it reaches the posiject of the King of England, residing at 44: tion indicated in Fig. 1, the ollsct lip G Brunswick road, Liverpool, in the county lying on that side of the standard opposite of Lancaster, England, have invented new the bracket and the plate is swung to a posiand useful Improvements in and Appertion where it also lies alongside the standard taming to i-idjustal'ile Brackets for S111 on the same side as the lip and opposite the porting Shelves or the like, of which the stud. Thus the stud is prevented from leavtollowing is a specification. ing its seat in the aperture and the bracket The invention has for its object an imis fixed firmly in position. proved bracket or shelf support adapted for To adjust the bracket, the plate C is use in confined situations and where scswung upward on its pivot by means of its curity is required and which shall possess a finger-piece and the bracket is also tilled as high degree of e'lticiency tor the purposes indicated in Fig. 2 until the lip G clears the intended, coupled with simplicity, .low cost front edge oi. the standard, whereupon the and ease of manipulation. stud can be moved laterally out of: the aper- In order that the invention may be readily ture and placed in another aperture, higher or understood, an embodiment of the same is lower. Obviously the plateC can be formed set forth in the accompanying drawing and integral with the bracket similarly to the in the description based thereon. As, howlip G but in such case it would be necessary ever, the invention is capable of embodito swing the bracket much higher in order ment in other varied structural. forms, it is to ctl'ect a clearance oi the front edge of the to be understood that the specification and standard. drawing are to be taken in an ilhistrative I claim: sense and not as unnecessarily limiting the 1. The combination with a standard havinvention. ing therein a vertical series of tranverse In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevaapertures, of a bracket having a portion tion showing a portion of the standard with adapted to lie alongside the standard and the bracket in position; Fig. 2 is a similar provided with a laterally projecting stud view showing the bracket in a position to adapted to enter one of the apertures, said be detached "for adjustment; and Fig. 3 is a bracket having a laterally offset lip adapted plan view of the parts in the relation shown to lie alongside the standard opposite the in the other figures. bracket, and a similarly ol'l'set plate pivoted Referring to the figures of the drawing in to the bracket and adapted to lie on the same detail, A represents the standards arranged side of the standard as the lip. one at each end of the shelving and at inter- S2. The combination with a standard havmediate points as may be required by the ing therein a vertical series of apertures, 0t load to be supported. a bracket having an upper portion adapted B is the bracket, having a plate C pivoted to lie alongside the standard and provided thereto at D and offset from the general with a laterally extending stud adapted to plane of the bracket a distance correspondenter one of the apertures, said bracket having roughly to the thickness of the standard. ing in its lower portion an o'll'set lip adapt- Projecting laterally from the bracket in its ed to lie on that side of the standard oppoupper portion is a stud E which is adapted site the bracket, and a similarly oll'set plate to enter any one 01 a vertical series of aperpivoted to the bracket and adapted to lie on tures F formed in the standard A. The that side of the standard opposite the stud. lower portion of the bracket has an integral In testimony whereof I have signed my offset portion in the shape of a lip G which name to this specification in the presence of is in substantially the plane of the plate C two subscribing witnesses. and in a plane parallel to that of the bracket. RICHARD OiVEN.

In positioning the bracket, the stud E is WVitnesses: entered in an aperture F at the height de- I-Innnr \VILLIAMS,

Hnnnen'r VVILLIAMs.

sired, the parts being in the position shown copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gomminloner 0! Patents,

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